July 3 (Cointime) - John Michael Musbach, a resident of Haddonfield, New Jersey, has been sentenced to six and a half years in jail for hiring a hitman to murder a child who was about to testify against him in a child pornography case. He transferred $20,000 worth of bitcoin to the "executor" to carry out the hit.
Musbach had exchanged sexually explicit videos and photographs with a 13-year-old child in the summer of 2015. After the victim's parents learned about the offense, they contacted law enforcement agents. The authorities identified Musbach as the perpetrator and arrested him in March 2016.
In addition to the pornography charges, investigators discovered that Musbach had been looking for a hitman on the dark web who could kill the child so that he wouldn't testify against him. Prosecutors recommended a ten-year prison sentence, but the Camden federal court changed the punishment to six and a half years.
This is not the first case of its kind with Scott Quinn Berkett, a resident of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, pleading guilty last summer to sending $13,000 in bitcoin to a hitman on the dark web whose task was to kill Berkett's ex-girlfriend.
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